Masculinity as multiple masquerade : the 'mature' Stallone and the Stallone clone / Chris Holmlund -- Dumb movies for dumb people : masculinity, the body, and the voice in contemporary action cinema / Yvonne Tasker -- Can masculinity be terminated? / Susan Jeffords.
Prologue : masculinity as spectacle : reflections on men and mainstream cinema / Steve Neale -- Valentino, 'optic intoxication, ' and dance madness / Gaylyn Studlar -- 'Feminizing' the song-and-dance man : Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan -- Mama's boy : filial hysteria in White heat / Lucy Fischer -- The dialectic of female power and male hysteria in Play Misty for me / Adam Knee -- 'Don't blame this on a girl' : female rape-revenge films / Peter Lehman -- Dark desires : male masochism in the horror film / Barbara Creed -- 'More human than I am alone' : womb envy in David Cronenberg's The fly and Dead ringers / Helen W. Robbins -- Animals or Romans : looking at masculinity in Spartacus / Ina Rae Hark -- Feminism, 'the boyz, ' and other matters regarding the male / Robyn Wiegman -- The buddy politic / Cynthia J. Fuchs.
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A series of essays from an impressive group of international scholars re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory.